Damned No Matter What: An American Congressional Story
For the record, I love America. I visit often, and it is a fabulous country. But I do think the American Congress needs to give its collective head a shake once in awhile.
So, CSIS and the RCMP crack the homegrown terrorist case of the decade in Canada, foiling the plans, exposing the terrorists, bringing down the whole operation, and saving Stephen Harper’s carotid artery.
While the U.S. administration praises Canada’s success, a couple of nutjobs in Congress only find new ammunition to blame Canada for all the evil in the world. Quick! Let’s erect a 400 meter concrete, barbed-wire capped fence along the border, and require mandatory body cavity searches for anyone entering the United States from a strange and foreign land — only after the delousing, of course.
Does this lunacy sound familiar?
After testing thousands and thousands of cows, a single case of ‘Mad Cow Disease’ is discovered in Canada … and the crowd goes wild!
Come on! Test enough meat, or explore enough anonymous tips, and you are bound to eventually find something. Isn’t this the point? Stop it before it becomes a real problem?
Instead, all the publicity around the ‘stopping’ seems to arm the (sadly, mostly conservative) spin-doctors with proof of ‘a problem’, rather than proof of ‘dealing effectively with a potential problem’.
Canada isn’t perfect. We have our homegrown terrorists just like every other country (except, USA, of course, according to the blinding light of Congress). Only difference, perhaps, is we have been more effective at stopping them (at least so far).
More guns come North from America than terrorists go South from Canada. Maybe we should build a wall, and start shooting tourists who ‘look suspicious’ as they cross the border.
Or maybe we should be proud of our accomplishments, embrace freedom, work together to ensure the security of the continent we share, and hope that lunatics don’t get the last say.
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